chit

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A child or babe; a young, small, or insignificant person or animal.

   “Madam was a little chit of a woman, not five feet in her highest headdress and shoes, and Mr. Washington a great tall man of six feet two.”

2. isim A pert or sassy young person, especially a young woman.

   “Hilda drove in silence for some time after this piece of unheard-of insolence from that chit Connie.”

3. isim The embryonic growing bud of a plant.

   “the chits of Indian corn or of potatoes”

4. isim An excrescence on the body, as a wart or a pimple.
5. fiil To sprout; to shoot, as a seed or plant.

   “I have known it chit in seven hours after it had been thrown forth of the Cistern and within three days come enough; the Maltster being forced to stir it six, seven or eight times a day,”

6. fiil To damage the outer layers of a seed such as Lupinus or Sophora to assist germination.
7. fiil To initiate sprouting of tubers, such as potatoes, by placing them in special environment, before planting into the soil.

   “Gardeners argue among themselves about how necessary chitting is, but I stick with tradition and do chit my seed potatoes.”

8. isim A small sheet or scrap of paper with a hand-written note as a reminder or personal message.
9. isim A voucher or token coin used in payrolls under the truck system.
10. isim A small sheet of paper on which is written a prescription to be filled; a scrip.
11. isim A smaller cardboard counter generally used not to directly represent something but for another, more transient, purpose such as tracking or randomization.
12. isim A signed voucher or memorandum of a small debt, as for food and drinks at a club.

    “1901, Falk, by Joseph Conrad He just longed to get away from here and try his luck somewhere else, but for the sake of his sister he hung on and on till he ran himself into debt over his ears—I can tell you. I, myself, could show a handful of his chits for meals and drinks in my drawer.”

13. isim A restaurant bill or check

    “When asking for the bill or chit in a Philippine restaurant, you can make use of hand signals if the waiter is quite far off.”

14. isim A debt or favor owed in return for a prior loan or favor granted, especially a political favor.

    “Harry would call in a chit with some desk manager who owed him a favor.”

15. isim A small tool used in cleaving laths. Compare: froe.

    “Then lastly (with their Chit) they cleave their Laths into their thicknesses, by the Quarter Grain, which is that Grain which is seen to run in strait Lines towards the Pith.”

16. isim Shit.
17. ünlem Shit.